Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] that i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lianas climbed everywhere and made the forest difficult to penetrate , but I remember that I loved this forest . |
| 2 | ‘ But I realised that I had spoken too soon , ’ he continued . |
| 3 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
| 4 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 5 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 6 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 7 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 8 | . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did . |
| 9 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 10 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 11 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 12 | Yeah , but you say that I paid thirty pounds for the Astra , now let's get it in the balance here , you see what I mean , and that sen and then |